Pole vaulter Hooker suffers another setback

Reigning Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker has put in another disappointing performance in Munich in the lead-up to the London Games.

Hooker could only clear 5.20 metres at a street meet in the city's Odeon Square on Tuesday night.

The Jump and Fly meet was won by German Malte Mohr with a leap of 5.72m.

Russian Igor Pavlov was second with 5.60m and Briton Steve Lewis - who was pushed into the silver-medal position by Hooker at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi - was third with a best of 5.50m.

Since booking his spot on the Australian Olympic team with a clearance of 5.72m at his special indoor training facility in Perth last month, Hooker has barely fired a shot in his international campaign.

He did not register a clearance in difficult wet conditions at the May 20 Diamond League meet in Shanghai and was equal-sixth at last week's Rome Diamond League with 5.42m.

The only other pre-Olympic meet the Australian track and field team captain has inked on his schedule is in Lille, France on Sunday.

Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie tops the 2012 world indoor (5.95m) and outdoor (5.90m) rankings and is the hot favourite to succeed Hooker as Olympic pole vault champion in London.